2019 Salary Cap - Bengals Cap Space

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(12-12-2018, 01:19 AM)Whatever Wrote: Another factor is that when the Bengals were founded, Paul Brown only actually had 10% ownership of the team. Over the decades, Paul slowly started to buy out his partners and this duty fell to Mikey after his passing.  For example, Mike paid out over $200 million in buying up Bengals shares in 2011.  The Brown family still only controls about 85% of the shares.  It could be said that when you look at the current value of NFL franchises and league growth that Paul should have pushed harder, earlier when it could've been done a lot cheaper.  

In any case, the Bengals will definitely have the cap space to make some major moves this off-season if they so choose.  They don't really have any FA's they absolutely need to resign.  They will probably earmark some for a Boyd extension, but it will be interesting to see what else they do.  

Yep! I was just pointing out that the fiscal realities of the franchise cause the club not to do things their cap would otherwise allow.